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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty, the official home of the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 2: We're broadcasting from Oakley Greens because it's Tuesday. That's one

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Speaker 2: to have you. How are you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm doing well, you know.

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Speaker 4: I will say that it's been a bunch of weeks

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Speaker 4: through this season, and by far the best moment of

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Speaker 4: the entire season was Joe Flacco's run.

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Speaker 3: I can't stop thinking about it.

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Speaker 4: I was so excited to get on this call Jess

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Speaker 4: so I could relive it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, out of my chair watching it, just love it.

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Speaker 2: He targets Jamar Chase twenty three times. He throws a

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Speaker 2: dime to t Higgins to help seal the game. He

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Speaker 2: makes a great throw to Andrey Yoshavas and you're right.

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Speaker 2: I went to bed on Thursday night thinking about Joe

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Speaker 2: Flacco's run more than any other play.

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Speaker 4: Unbelievable, and I thought he did a really good job

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Speaker 4: of getting the ball out of his hands really really quick,

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Speaker 4: and because of that, you end up getting a season

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Speaker 4: low pressure percentage. So one way to help out your

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Speaker 4: offensive line is just get rid of that thing. I

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Speaker 4: think that was really really tonsive and something I think

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Speaker 4: you can take away because it's not that we've seen

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Speaker 4: it once now, right, you know, I was, I think

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Speaker 4: a little bit harsh on the Steelers offense when we

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Speaker 4: talked last week. The Steelers defense really I think showed

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Speaker 4: that it had a lot of shortcomings that I was

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Speaker 4: glad that Flacco was able to take advantage of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was actually going to start there because I've

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Speaker 2: watched some analysis just crushed Pittsburgh for the way they

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Speaker 2: played Higgins and Chase sticking Man, never switching the zone

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Speaker 2: or at least rarely switching the zone own Schematically, if

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Speaker 2: you're a Steelers fan, what should you be fuming about

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Speaker 2: when it comes to Thursday.

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Speaker 4: There is just a kind of static nature to a

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Speaker 4: Steelers defense where you've seen at times over the last

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Speaker 4: few years. Hey, you're gonna throw in some more rotations

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Speaker 4: to get to cover two type looks. But Joe Black

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Speaker 4: I can clearly still just sit back there and chuck

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Speaker 4: it into kind of these open zone windows. So for me,

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Speaker 4: it feels like this defense it's not gonna be a

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Speaker 4: schematically ahead of the game defense where you don't always

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Speaker 4: have to be schematically ahead of the game. I don't

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Speaker 4: want to say that you need to win on a

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Speaker 4: chalkboard every time. If you're not going to, you have

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Speaker 4: to be better at a lot of the positions throughout

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Speaker 3: It did not look like that last Thursday night offensively.

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Speaker 2: Did the Bengals offensive line perform well or did Joe

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Speaker 2: Flacco just mask their deficiencies?

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Speaker 4: You know, I do think it was a little bit

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Speaker 3: And Chase Brown, I think he.

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Speaker 4: Had overall one hundred yards after contact, so that means

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Speaker 3: So I don't want to say, all right, well this this.

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Speaker 4: Rushing performance where you have like close to the ninetieth

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Speaker 4: I do think though, that black boy was able to

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Speaker 4: help the offensive line in the past game, and Chase

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Speaker 4: Brown was I mean, he had no desire to get

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Speaker 3: I think that really helped as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that. What did they do running

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Speaker 4: I think that one thing they were smart about just

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Speaker 4: I think that is a smart thing. Where Chase Brown,

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Speaker 4: you know, he also was pretty effective running out of shotgun,

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Speaker 3: Now you have something in the run game. And I

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Speaker 4: Like that is a full, full offense to be able

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Speaker 2: Sean said, is with us the State the Stats and

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Speaker 2: If if not for Flacco's heroics with Higgins and Chase,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about another dreadful night for the defense. They've

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Speaker 2: made some changes there, right They They've decreased Logan Wilson's

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Speaker 2: we stopped seeing Schamar Stewart. I just the Flacco thing

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Speaker 2: is fun. I worry about how sustainable it is. Not

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Speaker 2: so much because of him. They just can't get stops.

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Speaker 2: And I know I've asked you this a billion times,

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Speaker 2: but like Al Golden is trying stuff, He's benching Cam

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Speaker 2: especially when they need stops, are the same every single week.

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Speaker 2: What does the defensive coordinator do? Now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think you're hoping to play a

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Speaker 4: But is it just a kind of a game to

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Speaker 5: We're gonna truck at least one of our corners can

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Speaker 2: Why are the Jets so bad?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's it's it's quite unfortunate, it really really is.

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Speaker 4: I have friends in that uh in that in that

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Speaker 4: The offense I think is sometimes efficient on a down

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Speaker 3: Mud on offense.

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Speaker 4: Their defense that certainly regrets from what we think of

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Speaker 5: And it is I think pretty clear to me that

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Speaker 4: Obviously, it's easy to say when you start the season

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Speaker 4: zero to seven.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, like you know, Zach tay is going to

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Speaker 2: You know, you don't overlook an opponent, you don't take

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Speaker 2: point toward that if if they're going to ruin Sunday

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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati, how do they do it? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Man, I mean definitely a little bit of turnover.

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Speaker 4: Look, I think that's something that has been so far

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Speaker 4: you know, Tyra Taylor can still play. I don't want

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Speaker 3: Kind of runs out. So to me, that's the path

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it feels like their defense is a little bit

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Speaker 3: So I certainly would the Jets luck in this game.

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Speaker 3: It's done a lot of fun this year.

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Speaker 4: And hey, you know, it's easy to talk about some

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Speaker 2: Flac Omania, Sean, it's what we're calling it, at least

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Speaker 2: what I'm calling.

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Speaker 6: one three five eighty four pink. At this time, Paddock

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Speaker 6: Road remains shut down due to an accident that is

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Speaker 6: approaching the Norwood lateral on southbound seventy five. Another crash

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Speaker 6: at Fort Washington Way traffic backed up from the Western

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Speaker 6: Hills Viaduct and northbound seventy one. It's an accident at

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Speaker 6: Montgomery Road. I'm at ezalic with traffic